Show i fA JI t Al AlI I R YI HELDI Hl HELD I I WAR PlAN I MACE Public Men J Thinks Think of i I Ballots Not Bulwarks ks I Says Senator Harding in Washington Address I i il r l By International News Service 1 Feb 22 22 WASHINGTON I I Pausing in the time pressing drive of war work off official Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington today a paid paW tribute to the memory of f the first president of i the United States George orge Washington in the tabernacle devoted lo to the work I of Billy Sunday Sunda thousands gathered in inn respect to the first leader of or the reI re- re I i I I public Among the guests were a score score lof i of other high officials of of ot the United II i i States and the other r I nations of the 1 I I world I Paying high tribute to George Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington Se Warren G. G Harding of Ohio one of the principal speakers of the occasion declared that the United United Stat s. s has now come come to the crucial I test of the merits of ot the principles I upon W which ICh Washington and his corn com patriots patriots' founded the nation com I We Wo have come to find our boasted I popular government g put put to the crucial test lest in defending its national rl rights Senator Harding declared We met I l with no such problem In the Civil warWe ware war war We e have hae the duty to preserve the Inherited covenant of the fathers wo wee I have the obligation to hand on to succeeding suc sue i generations the tine very republic which we inherited If this generation g I will not sacrifice and suffer in this i crisis of or the world the republic is doomed THWART MUST HUNS 1 If thi this fortunate pt people cannot prove popular gove government capable of y deCe defense nse in a war for national rights j popular government falls fails If the Impudent Im- Im t int-t im-i im assumption of world I tion is not thwarted by the entente allies allieR and this pt people then civilization its itself lf Is Is- defeated 1 I wonder what the great Washing Washing- t utter in warping warning in his pas pas- passionate passionate pas pas- love of or the tho republic and his hiI deep concern about future welfare If 1 he could l know now the drift of today I In Tn In his undying farewell address SJ-I. SJ the re repeated anxiety was concerning Jealousies jealousies jealousies Jeal jeal- Te-I Te and s which spring from distrust and factional I There Thero has been no partisan politics In our war On the con- con conI I 1 partisan lines have been of- of ef effaced f- f I faced to close up the tIle ranks to patriotic d devotion But factions have grown more menacing and hold their factional designs more necessary r than patriotic consecration It is characteristic of or popular government government government gov gov- and its weakness that there ismore Is Is' more appeal to popularity than concern concern con con- I cern ern tor for common weal Too many men men in public life are more concerned about ballots than the bulwarks of free In In- In If It popular government Is Isto Isto isto to survive it must grant exact Justice to all men and md fear none If law law I is isto isto to be respected and government remains rem remains re- re I m mains supreme legislation must he be for tor all ail the people not for the few of oC vast I fortune of Its Influences I UTTERS UTTER'S WARNING I My My countrymen I am not cr crying out i in a wilderness of ot pessimism I am uttering a warning that comes of love for the republic Let us go on no matter matter matter mat mat- ter what betides tho the dependable establishment establishment of our national rights and the safety of our peoples yes and the sustained hands of among the peoples of or the arth We are no longer able abio to hold aloof and the world must be he ma made do safe to live in eLt us prove our unity and then let us dedicate our ous- ourselves selves selve In unity and concord conord and our 1 the Continued on page 2 i FACTIONAL ROW ROW Continued from page 1 1 same unalterable resolution to the I preservation of the tho inherited republic i By Associated Press ress NEW YORK Feb 22 A A parade of I 10 troops from the Seventy-seventh Seventy division n Of the n national army at Camp I Upton division divi divi- part Upton-part part of the metropolitan sion was sion-was was the distinguishing feature of ot the Washington birthday celebration i In New York The city outdid itself I in displacing the national colors and Fifth avenue avenue the principal line of I march for the parade was literally a waving lane of red white hite and blueThe blue n. n The reviewing officers officer's included S Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- re- re tary of or the Navy Daniels Brigadier General Evan M M. Johnson commanding command I ing the Seventy-seventh Seventy division and various state and municipal officials Tonight a mass meting meeting me under under the auspices of the American Alliance for Labor Laboi and Democracy will be addressed addressed addressed ad ad- dressed by Josephus Danl Daniels ls secretary of the navy and Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation I of LaborThe Labor The purpose of ot the meeting is to app appeal appeal ap ap- ap- ap p peal al to the loyalty of organized labor Jabor and of working people in g general n ral and j to explain the tho governments government's w war r aims |